Today is 9/8/2021
Holiday Inn:
My first job. I loved working there. I had some great friends working there. My mother worked in the Laundry room, washing and folding. I worked weekends, saturday and sunday. some holidays. we had to clean 12 rooms each day. I had a section of rooms. we always cleaned the vacant rooms also. We checked them, then raked the rug. Believe me when I say, there were times the rooms (vacant ones) were used! or occupied! ha. that was awful. ha. I will try to remember some of the crazy times we had.
I was 13 when I started there. the hotel was in Burlington and is no longer there. I will see if I can find some pictures. Anyway, yes, 13 and left at 16. During the summer, I was full time, working M-Sat.
We did get tips sometimes. not much. oh, just two summers I worked there. I remember having fun and enjoying working with the wonderful kids.
more later on my Maid experience.
Wells and Fords.
So, my real first job was weeding for my neighbors Mr. and Mrs Wells and the Fords (no relation) ... I really did not like it.
Baskin and Robbins.
When the mall was built I worked at Baskin and Robbins. It was fun. the owner was a jerk and did not come in often. He hated me cuz I talked back to him. I loved working there. I had a great boss and worked with some nice people. Friday's and saturdays were crazy busy. I worked there for a year. my jr. year of HS.
Tranti
I found another job at Tranti Systems. I soldered circuit boards my first few months and convinced the owner of the company to keep me on part time through my senior year. He sponsored me and I was able to put in 25 hours a week. It was an interesting time ... More later
Home:
I always tell my sister EW I don't remember. why, because I am afraid to remember. Mostly because I am sure there is a lot of trauma I have moved to a locked box in my head. that is okay...
I remember at the age of 13 or 14 sitting on my bed looking out the window smoking a cigarette and my sister EW and her friend Gail in the bedroom talking about going somewhere and asking if I could go. EW said no and Gail said, you should be happy to have a sister who wants to hang with you! EW responded, I hate her, she just wants to follow me and I am not her babysitter. I hate her.
ha. there was a lot of that.
When the addition was added to the house my dad was sent to Texas for work. After several weeks my mom went to be with him, leaving us with our mom's mother. Evelyn snuck out of the house, as well as I did. I only remember doing it once, going to a HS football game.
Kathy R came and stayed with us after that. I remember when my parents came home my mother had a very, very dark tan. whoa, that was crazy...
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Another memory:
I remember going under the wentworth's porch. I don't ever remember going in the house. the porch was a 'sun room' or an enclosed deck .. there was three feet of space and it was enclosed or covered in the front of the house. WW had me come under the deck to show off the candy he stole from the pharmacy in the center. it was easter time. i remember being aroud 4 or 5. I remember crawling under the deck but nothing else after.
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another thought....
I remember in the summers. i was 9 or 8 getting up early and being the first one on the parker school parking lot and making the four corners with chalk. drawing the hop scotch waiting for everyone to come out ... judy always came out soon after...
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as a teenager i remember dancing to the other end of parker st with my radio in my hand. it may have been a cassette. or maybe just in my head. with my halter top and my overalls and my well broken in sneakers.
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(2/2/22) Just remembering... these cold days of snow so high and the 'big hill" lol. that hill is no longer there. I will have to look for pictures of the hill. The big hill was at the parker school. and a great sledding hill. the whole neighborhood would be there. Such great fun we had. the hendersons, conrads, wentworth, smith, whiteway, fords, wells, gunther, cataldo, gosh I know there is more. I loved being outside ... we would have our wonder bread bags on our feet and hands too if it was too wet or our gloves did not keep the wet out. our winter garb. no one ever made fun of you as we all dressed the same. We all walked to school except for the Marshal. or middle school. we could grab the bus at the town hall (now it is the library) or walk the 1.3 miles... or less if you took short cuts. We did not all have sleds, sometimes we just only had one. we improvised with cardboard boxes or if we had on a fancy snow suit, we went on our butts. the snow suits were perfect for but sledding. we doubled up or pushed with a running start. haha.
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I remember going to the pellitiers house. Charron had just gotten her new car. we were listening to Mr P talking about all the things with the car. I leaned up against the car and he yelled at me. asking if i was lazy and did i need a cane and don't ever lean on any cars. and so on. He was not very nice...
I did love charron though. we shared the same birthday and i remember her being so nice to me.
(Charron married Jack ... her wedding shower was at RW house and my mom and dad helped them get married. charron passed from throat cancer. )
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these are split memories for sure. I remember only bits, small smidgens. mostly playing at parker school lot. the summer. mrs Gallagher, wessell, and mr goulars. the others ... they were mean.
middle school... grade six walked through the center. don't remember much of it.
grade 7: the halls .. haha i walk through them every day now. half days at the howe high school...
grade 8 marshall... i tried to be friends with some of the girls. it was awful. astronomy ... social studies... math... locker antics
grade 9 algebra teacher whacking me over the head with a book because i wasn't smart like my sister. EW ... i got a lot of that.
grade 10... i was sick a lot
grade 11 Deca 1/2 days worked at baskin and robbins .... the opening of the mall ... then tranti systems...
grade 12 DECA tranti... car accident with sissy powers...
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4/20/22
thought of the week. I remember the oooo's and ahhhh's from others over EW .... blond blue eyed beautiful girl, long blond hair, just gorgeous. then you see RAW's other two children. short pixie cut, dark hair. I don't remember having long hair till i was in my teens. I do remember EW having long hair always.... long and curly.
I have no idea why I thought of this, other than it is a revelation of how GF and I were treated growing up. as a matter of fact she did this (had her hair cut pixie like) to my daughter and GF's daughter (MF) both with dark hair. never to SP or KF ...
Maybe we looked too much like my dad ....
who knows.
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